Three felonies a day is 15 years old and only more true than ever.

Fusion will likely happen in this century. Fission is a great temporary power source to get us there alongside renewables.

Apple engages in anti competitive practices, I’m not sure they need to be broken up as much as the US needs to follow the EU and mandate third party app stores, standard connectors, and interoperability.

It shouldn’t be too hard to clean them with something running on the tracks, but it does seem less than ideal.

Covering parking lots is expensive and you lose spots to supports and there’s the inevitable car hitting those supports.

Putting panels between rail lines doesn’t need a structure so it should be far cheaper and easier to install and fix, even if they aren’t ideal.

Having a physical HQ is a huge advantage for a country to have here.

Countries will get what they want from X or Instagram either way, see Brazil.

Amazon is a place where you have to deal with fake items and getting fraudulent returns shipped to you as new. Your reward for this is maybe a 5% discount.

It depends on the paper based on some quick searching, but I can pickup the paper from staples faster than Amazon will deliver it.

It depends on the product, but brick and mortar is superior to Amazon in some cases now. It’s mostly just things that are easy to ship that Amazon is cheap for.

We don’t see exploding batteries more because most militaries are better about securing their supply chain.

In pagers explicitly for receiving messages from a Hezbollah controlled network. About the only thing more direct would be putting more explosives in the rockets, but that would cause significantly more collateral damage.

No one planted explosives all over the place in this scenario. We have videos of what happened, people standing nearby weren’t harmed.

Most would blame the mass murdering parent for endangering the child.

These are far more expensive than commercial TVs.

When done by the government, yes it is. When done by multinational mega corporations, yes it is. When a teacher takes the swear words out of a school play, it’s not a big deal.

At most it matters to have a healthy player count to get quality guides/videos/forums, which don’t always matter, but are nice to have. Palworld still has a pretty good base for that though.

The goal was to come up with an alternative that gave Google a significant advantage in advertising while appearing to protect privacy. That project has apparently failed, so it’s now more like business as usual.

They have a near monopoly on compliance though which is the draw of government cloud. It’s a totally different product from their commercial offerings. The software portion isn’t really a factor, it’s the paperwork and audit results.

It’s not just lobbying. The expertise to build and certify what Microsoft did for government cloud is expensive and rare. Open source still needs a third party to provide that level of support, because the documentation is more important than the technical capabilities.